When William Warren Goodrich was born on 26 January 1804, in Owego, Tioga, New York, United States, his father, Eliakim Goodrich, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Leland, was 40. He married Mary Fox in 1830. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 27 May 1872, in Wysox Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68.